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FIGE SIX SHITE MA1MMSE tsYXOPSlfu Torn apart ana -brought to lha verge of divorce by Hob'e mieunderttanding ot Mar eha'a friendship tor Qtoflrcy Ta7 Uton, the two vitro gradually find ing their titty back to each olhnr becauee ot itareha'e devotion to tha .memory ot Dob's mother, who hoe dud one recently. Now. however, hob hat eurprleid Martha trying to pry open a bop containing soma at hie mother's personal effects. ( Ha It furlou: Chapter 41 INSULT f ARSHA'S faca qulrered. 1 1 "you were mistaken," h ald, "In thinking that ih kept anything that would be of value to you In that box" (he nodded toward it). "Those amusingly et old pieoee of Jewelry are in a box at the bank where my mother kept ber account. I nt you money, which you took, after the first, perfunctory, dramatlo re fusal. Wasn't It enough?" Her eyes flashed; through his hands on her arms he felt her sway ing cease and her angry tension fol low. Still she mads no sound. "It you are In some financial trouble. I ll help you out," he prom ised, "but I want no mora thieving In this house and I ask you to keep out ot this room." Her anger gone, she swayed. "You have duped me," he said in a voice that was oddly soft for his words, "and from the first. Married to you not & month, I found you In your lover's arms and I found at that same time, you may recall, -why I had been honored by your stooping" to toe. Now I find you try ing to pry open a joi the contents of which I have never seen," She opened her lips to sp'ak; she gasped, closed them and for a mo ment hor eyes, too, were closed. "You are a beautiful little cheat," be went on, "and I was apal". soften ing most amazingly to you. I nave been dreaming ot taking you back with me. But now I'm cured of yon." She smiled. "It Is amusing?" he questioned, tenth set. chin hardening. "I think it Is rather amusing," she agreed. He had dreamed ot taking ber back with him! Her smile, her answer, set within blm as brutal an InstlLct as he had ver felt; he gripped her arms tight ly and he stood thus, eyes narrowed and on her. At length he spoke. ' "Yes, I presume It Is," he admit, ted, "that all men who love you are amusing to you. I am going to kiss you. My doar, why struggle? What difference can a kiss or two make to you? A great many men have kissed you, you know. Haven't they?" He circled her shoulders with his arm and roughly kissed her once and then forgetting everything but his hunger for her which survived bate and 'corn he kksscd her again and aealn. Ha heard her sob deeply and he dropped his arms to stand away. Blindly, she moved toward till door. "My God, what have I done?" he thought, "what have I done!1 HER room was dark when be reached bis, carrying the minted box beneath his arm. And after be had set the box upon the tuble that was by his bed, he found ou hla bureau a note vrrltten In Mar sha's hand, and near It a smsll cas ket that had, one day, held French bonbons, but that now held bills. "I took the money," sho had wrl ten, "because I thought yon were made- more comfortable by my doing so. I always Intended to return your money to you when I could without hurling you. Aftor you wrote me ot your worry mnde by my not cashing the chocks, I did cash them, but you will And It all here." Color flooded his face; lie read the note again, glanced dully at the box that had oue day held French bonbons, but that now held bills. Ho dropped to the edge of a deep chair aa a sensation o'' acutcst solf scorn swopt him. No matter what sho was, or was not, be bad no right to speak to her aa he bad, nor to kiss her as he had. He had lost grip as he had never dreamed be could. With hands that trembled, he lit a cigarette to puff doeply and to stare, frowning, through the light smoke at an echo ot Marsha's face. "To the end of time," he thought. "I'll hate you and need youl" Ho might as well turn In. When the dawn, cold, rale, gray, Salem Painter Takes Own Life SALEM. An. 30. .VP. William H. Denamoro, shout AO, died yesterday in a hospital here from a self-lnf llcted liot in the back. Densmore lived alone and was a painter. FIRST MALHEUR CLERK IC RIIRirn IW DNTARIfi S"" smith wu announmt winner j !ot citv-wtde popularity eontrM . ht.t. and lui tlw mult will reprcarnt I . '.no cltv t tll Amrncnn Lrnlon con dny for Jud(to K H. Twt, 74, tr.,', ! ' ln A,torl tnu rounty clrk ot Mulhmr county t the Iirat mayor of Ontario, who rtit Friday from hart attack. The 3 slipped gently Into being. Bob sat up, drew bis knees up, dropped hi; hesd to his arms. Hla night had been long an6 sleepless. He hsd fought his remem brance of kissing her again and again; given In to It; risen from it shamed. He bad tried to remem ber every word he had said; he had planned his apology. And In the chaos, had come to him the certain ty that he had forgotten much. He glanced toward the bureau; he could make out. In the hinting light, the casket that had once held French bonbons. And for perhaps the hundredth time since be bad flrst seen It, he flushed. He hsd given her that box, he re membered as his cheeks cooled. It was odd, her having kept It She had said when be brought It to her, with some flowers, some books and an odd little trinket In Jade that he thought she might like. "Don't be so good to me!" She was not as heartless as be hsd said she was; he knew It! And he bad told her that be was done with caring . . . well, he was not done with caring and he never could be. If she could know how It was with him, she might forgive bim bis bru tality a little more easily. No mat ter what she had been, what she would be, what she was, bs loved herl (His shoulders moved, with his deep sharply Indrawn breath.) IT was a love that did not yield to argument nor reason and It was, primarily, love, not passion. Never before had he forgotten her through hla needs, and he would never, ho promised himself, so forgot her again. He recalled a story of Richard Harding Davis', In which a man, questioned by the father of the girl whom be wanted to marry, admit ted that he would not hurry to tbe girl he wanted to marry. It he bad only a year to live but lnatead to another woman. It was like that; and if he bad only a year, he would pick Marsha up, take her off somewhere where her screams wouldn't be beard, and love her very gently, but love her for the all-too-short space, and ask her to let blm believe that she loved him. It was curious; this divorce be tween love and respect. When younger, he bad not dreamed It could be so. But it was so. Nothing had ever been for him more truly so. He loved ber without respecting her and he loved her as he had not, once, dreamed men could love. He had not known such rage as he had folt the night before, since childhood, and then he had suffered It but tew times; be had soon been "too grown up to do that." And he had loosed it all upon her. He wondered, sitting up In his bed. bow long It would be before she woke and before be could ask her to farglva him his conduct of the night befora. He hoped. Intense ly, that it would not be too long; he had had about aa much ot It as he could bear. He raised bis head from bis arms and after a space ot staring at the bonbon box on his bureau, he sank back. He had not slept during the night and bis eyes closed; a drowsi ness crept over him through which he saw Marsha's face. He slept to dream of her, holding her arms ont to him as he ran up the gulch path and toward her. When he awoke sunlight was boldly printed upon the floor, and a long, steady look at bis watch, dur ing which the din) became clear, told him that It was well aftor nine. He rose, sodden. Cold water helped blm to gain the strength that he knew he would need In talk ing to her. Her room was quiet. Ha heard not a stir from It. She mlsht, ot course, have gone down to break fast early. When Bob gained the dining room and when clock hands wore leaning toward ton, he found old Bartholomew waiting him and smil ing. "You rested bettor, sir," said Bar tholomew, "and It has done me good to know It! Everything la ready and waiting and hot, sir. And the cook says as how It looks like true spring at last." (CefrriiH, KM, fr K. SmiUnJ TeyOrt Bob li lirrtd, tomorrow, out of Ma bllndnt.a. Acacia Masonic cfi, of which Judn TVH was a charter member and Pt 1 master, directed the nrrvlce. JudiW TVwt rums to Malheur county in 18H3. He later was county clerk mayor, bank cashier, city clprk. conn tv Judge, and a mem tier of the legis lature. tjurrn of Snlrtn SALEM. Aug. 30 .1-M Mr- Pliont Mil wt'U naui away youj ' reruM City Sanitary 8rlo. 3IEDF0RE HATE SEEN IN CONFUSED STATE Urine m hla topic lat night "Buret- lnsf Buds of Christ Second Coming". in speaking from the local Church of th Nazarenc pulpit, Fred M. weain- erford, pastor-evangelist, said, Some of the bud are scrlpturany noted, such aa famines, pestilences and earthquakes in divers places. Wo have experienced within the pat month a famine In our own middle states, for which the government has appropriated vast sums. We also have with us a pentllentlal scourge Jn the form ol infantile paralysis. This may he associated with the more or lew continuous Influenza scourge. We have had, more earthquakes In the past ten or twelve years than In sev eral hundred years previously. The Intensity of these mark them as an epoch of hla soon coming. We wonder what kind of a hu manitarian spirit It Is when our gov ernment plows under a million acres of wheat, pours milk Into the sewers, dumps potatoes into the ocean and makes fertilizer of its livestock, coin cident with International famine. Confusion among nations Is an other budding Indication. Govern mental forma have passed into cycles from monarchy, aristocracy, constitu tional monarchy and democracy in succession. Some have conjectural there Is yet communistic dictatorship, but these are only a revamping of some one of the other forms, until there la nothing new and untried ex- 8 'MATTER POP F?VJtttIf,T?UMT0 N f U-PSdMa NEW VMV j WA T44e.OUEVT.OW- J 1 , I rfMOW. X) M Y JiT ) I SoTU-T AulT-TVPasJI TO -HOW (t -Wp.' I ES 1 A -Trit -House., S hj mam caw A'ToMe. K"iDSS SYK-LtL J x lve ncT TAILSPIN TOMMY What Became of the Diamonds? By Hal Forretf 7"1HAT STIFF V-JE HAULED y -S-i-Csf OH YAH"THE OTHER. GlSi", KHI CHIEF, u3E SEARCHED ALL. JK' 4&2 S Y TUE-N THIS SUY MUST S f Out of your plahb is Si .don't noun hey, clancey. hop in thbough that plane.-- - ( have, tdssco the. tvs s ' "OOPEY" KOf E- AND BOTH uiHAT VOU'RS THAT PLANE AND SET THE XVa 6UT NARY A DIAMOND XJI AU&J OUT IN SOME. SPOT WHERS. L OF Y3U HELD UP Wsuyif TALK INS A80UT-- AS OF DIAMONDS rC-J-l -"IOLILD IO erT HE "SUR-ED ME-D RECOVER, feio H0URS"A60- Wk THe MAN N MY S-'s?! 2r rTNTsCS,: T LATER.- HOW ASOLTTV BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Tho Note By EDWIN ALGER JM'ti ( WHAT OON' ASK ME;. II AIN'T THAT A 7M 1 1 WHAT DOES ( IT SAYS PLINTY ! I OTftrW HAPPENED, IW MISTAH BEN W'TSS fEB8iL ' MUSTA' I ' NOTE PINNED VM.Tfl IT SAY ? f HERE, USTEN l BEEN THE NEBBS The Mndrtler By So' He" f SA.Y, VJUfvT'3 THE MATTCS ?N AJUV TMEOE IS KJO BILI lllllj TVleRE -VOL) GO, VOL) OLD 5Tl CK-VOOH.- 1 Aji-n-t cojoie.s bill r 1 Pour 1 . w conjnjih: is wow im -rue employ C&555 sooT-ivj-eveecv-n-iiioG. voo Give wea UJo.kJT IT TO RUM LIP J r 9 0p- THE WIVTER COMPAUV AMD SHE Ki? A. OOS, MOMEV AlOO FREE BOARDIWS- f!';.&T ' -"-"-t-s "J yty' j a lives free ikj our motel . twm ' you HAxe so ikjoepgnj dekjt that J ,'' .JST ZJ" S"ij'" l1 CKK" OI SLLUS S&KJ'T HAE y .(' V SHE DOM'T HAVE TO SET MARRIED ' j 1" u ' ' ' 1 in"" I I I IMt I II II j I fli 1 i . - III I IV l .i V I 1,1 I I I I ! I M 1 BRniOINC CP FATHER By George McManufl fiTfegv I urn 111 aii willydu ji . kvh TRTBXINE, BEDFORD, ceptlng the kingship reign of Christ. "Destruction la not threatening the world.; It fange have already struck. The ship of state Is not about to sink; It Is already sinking before our eyes. The divorce mills are turning out one to every sixth marriage, con sequently this has taken a toll In Juvenile delinquency. Three hundred thousand are dying annually from social disease In the United States. An average of every fourth person, says a Chicago health Institute h&a a social disease. We have twelve thou sand murders and three thousand kidnaped in the United States In a year an increase In murder since 1890 of three hundred and fifty per cent. "Richlieu warned France that they could not have stable civil govern ment without God. When men cease to fear God they cease to regard the oath, and when the oath Is disregard ed no contract la binding and no life is tuJo. Thus we see Iniquity Is abounding. Generally speaking, the church Is as cold as a dog's nose. Luke warmneos and formalism ob tain. This Is the prediction of Christ that would obtain Incident to his second arrival. "The Bible is God's official time card and you will not miss the train on which he moves his ealnta out of this old world If you will answer his call to preparation tonight. The saf est pilot la not t the one who will brave the roughest seas, hut the one who knows the channel. Christ knows the channel and can get us Into harbor. The scientific world of our day has so outstripped the moral and spirit ual pace that we need a scientific moratorium until there is a conval escent recovery In the moral and spiritual economy of life. i T. W. Bartlett, Medford'a Taxiderm ist and Furrier, will open shop on or about Sept. 1st, at 20 S. Central. OKEG'OS. JICmttT, 'AUGUST 20, 1931 v FIRST RURAL CARRIER IN OREGON WILL QUIT SALEM. Aug. 20. (fly-Picking of early clusters was started In hop yards In most of the Willamette val ley district today. Picking of the lat-s or heavier hop will get started In about ten days. Most growers have agreed to pay one cent a pound to pickers with a bonus for those who remain the en tire month's season. FIRST HOP PICKING STARTS NEAR SALEM SALEM, Ore., Aug. 30. (; After carrying mall on a rural route for more than 37 years, with claims he wns the first rural mail carried in Oregon, F. C. Gunning of Turner will be retired October 1 on a .substantial pension. His retirement comes as a result of the postmaster general's program of reducing postal overhead by combin ing rural routes. Zlinmermau's Father Dead McMINNVILLE, Ore., Aug. 20. (,F Christian Zimmerman, 85, lay dead today and his son, Peter Zimmerman, independent candidate for governor, returned from a speaking tour In east ern Oregon to attend the funeral to morrow, at Yamhill. 11K nream Realized VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 20. the late James J. Hill, builder of railroads, the vast grain elevator that now dominates the Vancouver water front was formally opened here yes terday. I i Oregon Weather Fair tonight and Tuesday; warmer Interior wet portion Tuesday; mod erate to fresh northerly wind off shore. Use Mall Tribune want ada. MILEAGE Sfft OOf WllH JUNIOR FOR BRISk SUrlDhV AFIfcRHOON WALK -fiES 6H0E AMD 6EfS UNDER WAY A6AIN, Url- Til Forced to hurry" BACK.JUHIOR HAVING FALLEN DOWN AND HURT HIS KNEE c?J20 BOOHES AWARE TUKI JUNIOR HAS LA66ED i HAIFA B10CK BEHIND' CAUS 10 HIM fn "-"V APPLIES FIRST AID AMD SETS OUT A6AIN, DIS COVERING, AFftR A block, that junior: has Vanished entirely WALKS BACK,TiNDIN6 JUNIOR BEHIND A HOUSE MAWK6 FRIENDS WlTrl A J06. (CopyrlsM," 1934. by The Bn Syndicate, Inc.) By GLUYAS WILLIAMS - JUKIOR REf ilSES f3 VlftVS CATERPILLAR, AMP BUD6E UNfil HE HAS SEfS OUT BRISKLY A6AIS COME BACK TO 5ff IHIS UMTlL STOPPED BV CALLS CATERPIUWl . 60CS BACK FftOM J'JUlOR 10 C0MF BACK AND 1IE HI5 SHOE AUt SO HAVIH6 WALKED ABOUT TWO MILES IN COVERING A BLOCK AND A HALF, TURNS WEARILY FOR HONE . By C. M. Payni 4
